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California targets offshore wind and green hydrogen in $2bn budget for 'existential climate fight'

California

Newsom’s $286.4bn Blueprint California proposal for 2022-23, now sent to the legislature for approval, earmarks $100m to advance green hydrogen use and production. “Green hydrogen is critical to the decarbonisation of California’s economy and achieving carbon neutrality,” according to a summary of the budget released by his office.

Another $380m will enable investments in long-duration storage projects that would come online through 2023 to support electric grid reliability. This capacity expansion will help with resilience in the face of emergencies, including wildfires, such as those that gripped the south of the state last year and have been linked to climate change.

 

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